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November 2010

Telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. From Wikipedia

Researchers have succeeded in reversing the aging process and returning elderly mice to their youth... partially

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John Shanklin, US Department of Energy

Raw materials for plastic from transgenic plants

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Monoclonal antibodies to cancer

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a method to find out which proteins move from cell to cell in the intercellular communication

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Interstate 880 Oakland, California, after the 1989 earthquake. From Wikipedia

Research earthquake: Researchers from the Hebrew University offer a way to predict the severity of earthquakes

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Transparent solar collectors. Figure: Brookhaven National Laboratories

Solar windows generate electricity

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Prof. Sharit Kraus, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, recipient of the 2010 Emet Award

Prof. Sharit Kraus from Bar Ilan will receive a grant of 2.3 million euros for research in the field of artificial intelligence

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On March 2, 2010, the Cassini spacecraft passed near Rhea. In the picture: simulation of the predicted oxygen density (in yellow) compared to INMS instrument measurements on Cassini (in white) during the approach flight

A faint atmosphere containing oxygen has been discovered around Saturn's moon see

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The cerebral hemispheres

Psychopaths behave in a lack of empathy similar to people with a frontal head injury

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Tigers at Six Flags Park in New Jersey. Photo: Bob Jagendorf from Wikimedia Commons, CC license

Breeding wild animals

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The arrival of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft to land in Kazakhstan, 25/11/2010 Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The members of the 25th crew of the space station landed in Kazakhstan while the shuttle was still grounded

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A plant eaten by a caterpillar (top) and the engineered version that killed the caterpillar (bottom). From Wikipedia

Genetic engineering made by nature

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Artificial brain: Wikipedia illustration. CC license (see link to the source at the bottom of the page)

Conversations with machines

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The Iranian launcher - Sapir 2

Rocketry is an art: on rockets launched into space

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Scanning electron microscope photograph of guanine plaques from a silver spider. In the upper photo we can see a sandwich-like structure, in which a layer of non-crystalline guanine (marked by an arrow) is between two plates of crystalline guanine. Weizmann Institute photo

The color of the silver

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From right to left: Elon Langbheim, Dr. Yair Shukif, Prof. Shmuel Shafran, Dr. Benjamin Fredrich.

The importance of substrate stiffness in tissue engineering

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Salmonella typhimurium bacteria (in red) invade human cell culture. From Wikipedia

Salmonella bacteria against cancer

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The crane to the crane: we have a bacterial match so what do you think?

Do bacteria influence our choice of mates?

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Shaul and Rene Gessner

Plastic

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Garbage bag - we pack what bothers us

Closed and signed

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The planetary nebula NGC 1514 as imaged in infrared by the Wise Space Telescope. The rings are not visible in visible light

The diamond in the sky: two rings encircling a planetary nebula

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Prof. David Passig, Prof. Shlomo Shoham, Modi Zandberg at the ceremony of awarding a certificate of honor to Prof. Shoham for his role as Commissioner for Future Generations in the Knesset, at the first conference of the Israel Union for the Future, 22/11/10 at Bar-Ilan University. Photo: Baru-Ilan spokespeople

The future research sciences testify to academic openness and scientific legitimacy

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Food rich in carbohydrates. From Wikipedia

Celiac disease: the causes of the disease and avoiding gluten

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Jellyfish of the species Aequorea_victoria. From Wikipedia

The Technion researchers discovered that the movement of shrimps and jellyfish contributes a lot to the sea turbulence

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Warning sign against dangerous drinking water. From Wikipedia

Ben Gurion University research with implications for wastewater reclamation

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Dr. Moshe Herzberg. Credit: Ben Gurion University

Prize for excellence in science for researchers from the Technion and Ben-Gurion

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